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Campaigning against sharia human rights abusesSat, 27 Dec 2014 14:39:26 +0000en-UShourly1ISIS Pressure on Human Rights: Dangerous Developments in Pakistanhttp://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/11/12/isis-pressure-human-rights-dangerous-developments-pakistan/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/11/12/isis-pressure-human-rights-dangerous-developments-pakistan/#commentsWed, 12 Nov 2014 19:33:10 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19932Our friends in Pakistan at the FarrukhSaif Foundation made us aware of the following developments in Pakistan. These developments have huge implications for human rights in the Indian Subcontinent in particular. They are also likely to have a broader strategic impact that will likely have human rights implications across a much wider area. *** Ready […]

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Ready or not they are coming: By Farrukh Harrison Saif

South Asia: Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned the provincial governments and other law and enforcement agencies regarding the mounting threat from the ISIS militants. Recently a secret document was leaked in which Pakistani Agencies were sending information about the ISIS (Daish) activities in Pakistan.

According to the letter, dated 31st October, Daish or ISIS has recruited 10,000 to 12,000 fighters from the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kurram tribal district in FATA. In that letter it is also mentioned that ISIS has offered some banned Islamic organizations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) to join hands in Pakistan. Both of these organizations are Anti-Shia like ISIS. ISIS (Daish) has also formed 10-members Strategic Planning Wing, which will target the Army installations in Pakistan as Pakistani Army is working hard to eliminate these terrorists from the North of Pakistan.

Moreover, Pakistani Military Intelligence revealed that there are more than 370 ISIS terrorists in Pakistan and the majority of them have made their strongholds in Karachi and Southern Punjab.Different media groups are revealing that hundreds of Islamists are joining ISIS in Punjab and currently five top ISIS commanders have shifted to Lahore from Karachi and all of them are Australian Nationals.

Pakistan is currently going through the hard time in its history , religious extremism is at its height and if, as with this situation, terrorist organizations like ISIS made their strong hold in Pakistan, then religious Minorities and Moderate Muslims will be in great tribulation.

Altaf Hussain, the Chief of MQM, is the only person who raised this issue in public on the same day when this report was leaked.

A few weeks ago six of the top Pakistani Taliban’s commanders announced that they would ally with ISIS. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said that he, along with five other commanders, has accepted the leadership of Al-Baghdadi, chief of the Islamic State or ISIS or IS. He further stated that he will obey all the orders of Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi by any means.

Shahidullah further stated that:

“ Mullah Fazlullah will support ISIS but he still owes adherence to Mullah Omer, the chief of the Afghan Taliban, who is aligned to al-Qaeda. Whereas I and my other five associated commanders have accepted the leadership of Al-Baghdadi. He also announced the names of his associates who joined ISIS, Orakzai Agency Chief Saeed Khan, Kurram Agency Chief Daulat Khan, Khyber Agency Chief Fateh Gul Zaman, Peshawar Chief Mufti Hassan and Hangu chief Khalid Mansoor”.

Less than a week after Taliban spokesmen announced their loyalty to Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, another associated group of Al-Qaeda namely Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) announces their joining with ISIS as well.(IMU, is an Uzbek-led militant group of Central Asians).

The IMU leader Usman Ghazi, in his official statement greeted ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’s decision to declare a caliphate. In this same statement he congratulated all Muslims with the restoration of the long-awaited Islamic state.As ISIS is getting control in major cities in Syria and Iraq, most of the Pakistani, Afghani, Arab as well as Uzbek fighters have started thinking to join them.

Even in September John Simpson (World Affairs Editor of BBC News ) wrote in his article that “Fighters from a militant Islamic group in Afghanistan, allied to the Taliban, have told the BBC that they are considering joining forces with Islamic State (ISIS).

This has also been observed that hundreds of fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan joined ISIS through Saudi Arabia. ISIS is getting favor around the world as in the war to become the superpower in the world of militancy, ISIS appears to winning the hearts and minds of a new generation militants with its ruthless quest for the Caliphate, theatrical territorial gains and persistent propaganda.

The new generation of militants appears to be more involved in action than lectures. Al Qaeda soldiers from around the world are joining ISIS. As for them Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is fighting against the apostates and establishing a new Caliphate.

If the Pakistani and Afghanistan Talibans and mainstream leaders of Al-Qaeda network joins ISIS then Pakistan will be in terrible situation. Liberals, moderates and minorities in Pakistan will be cut into pieces by these monsters, just as happening in Syria and Iraq . Furthermore minorities may be forced to pay the Jizzya or provide their wife or daughter as booty to Jihadists and moderate Muslims will be forced to give their daughters as well for Jihad-ul-Nakkah. We all know that Pakistan has been home to International terrorists including Al-Qaeda and the Talibans. Even the mastermind of 9/11 was arrested in Pakistan and Bin Laden, the head of Al-Qaeda was killed there. Militants were kept as an important component of Pakistan Foreign policy. Many Islamist militants were created and controlled by the Pakistani authorities. Even Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, had to admit that terrorist outfits were “deliberately created” and looked after by previous governments as a policy to achieve some short-term strategic objectives.

In the 1950s The Pakistani government started inserting Islamists associated with Jamaat-e-Islami into Afghanistan. In 1974 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto created an organization to manage and control dissident Islamists in Afghanistan. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto instructed the Army Intelligence of Pakistan to begin organizing an Islamist resistance into manageable groups.

When General Zia ul Haq seized power in Pakistan in 1977, he made every possible effort to make Pakistan a pure Shariah state. However he began pressing the USA for the support as the Soviet Union became more violent in Afghanistan.

After 1982 American and Saudi money was flowing like water into Pakistan and hundreds of madrasas were established around the country to train and welcome the Mujahideens from all over the world. By this time Jamaat-e-Islami became important in the promotion of the new political Islam in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This entire situation created unrest in Pakistani society. Christians and other religious minorities were caught in a grave situation, with gory incidents occurring. A wild wave of sectarianism had overwhelmed the society; religious intolerance is suffocating the lives of Innocents.

Religious extremism has grown beyond all proportions; If in this situation where Christians, Shia and other minorities are persecuted every day in Pakistan, if control is established by the ISIS, then Christianity and other religious minorities will be cast out of Pakistan just like they have been in Syria and Iraq.

It’s a time to decide this land called Pakistan is safe for our families? Even this is the responsibility of International community to Stand with the Persecuted religious Communities of Pakistan before it too late.

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/25/allah-global-campaign-coverage-press-conference/feed/0Do Sharia Teachings Need To Be Moderated In Order To Protect Women?http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/sharia-teachings-need-moderated-order-protect-women/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/sharia-teachings-need-moderated-order-protect-women/#commentsWed, 22 Oct 2014 20:34:28 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19894Alain Wagner, ICLA’s chairman, asks for a strict control of muslim teaching facilities and for a ban on sharia teaching activities. Working session 9 : “Violence against women and children” 26 September 2014. The International Civil Liberties Alliance wishes to emphasize the particular need for the participating states to ensure the protection of women and […]

]]>Alain Wagner, ICLA’s chairman, asks for a strict control of muslim teaching facilities and for a ban on sharia teaching activities. Working session 9 : “Violence against women and children” 26 September 2014.

The International Civil Liberties Alliance wishes to emphasize the particular need for the participating states to ensure the protection of women and children from vulnerable groups who often are unable to enforce their rights due to their confinement in close-knit, closed cultural communities.

Yesterday we mentioned the case of Muslim women and children in the UK who suffer from the activities of Islamic Courts, but you also have the obligation to expand the subject to problems of Muslim educational institutions.

Some anti-democratic Muslim organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood or others who receive funding from countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, use the guise of religious freedom to open schools with educational activities. These organizations that disseminate discriminatory doctrine against women and non-Muslims and are generally incompatible with respect for individual freedoms, often are not subject to any serious control. As demonstrated by the total absence of screening of educational content of such organizations in OSCE participating states.

The example of textbooks, discovered by chance in the UK, teaching children how to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, within a Muslim school receiving state subsidies, is absolutely typical of the current degree of negligence.

Physical abuse is one thing, but one should not forget the devastation caused by moral violence. Muslim women are the first victims of the organizations that promote the respecting of the fundamentally discriminatory rules of Sharia.

All OSCE participating states committed to the eradication of discriminatory practices against women and young girls should have as the core principle the prevention of the development of educational institutions disseminating the principles of sharia. But that is currently not the case.

Whether due to intense pressures exerted by the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or because of a poor understanding of sharia and its manifestations by the authorities of the member countries, the fact is that our duty to protect muslim women is clearly not fulfilled.

The mere fact that the promotion of Islamic headscarves in some religious educational institutions is considered only in the aspect of an individual statement of confession, without ever considering the fact that the wearing of such is linked with the principle of the sequestration of women when they do not wear it, nor ever considering that behind this phenomenon, there is often a promotion of a political agenda shows the inability of participating countries to deal knowledgeably when they try to protect muslim women. And that is just one example among many.

Recommendation to participating states :

Establish educational charters prohibiting the dissemination of the promotion of sharia and incentives to abide by its rules in all institutions with educational activities.

Develop and implement educational programs for young children from at-risk backgrounds to promote the concept of equal rights between the sexes and the right of women to assert their choice against discriminatory community standards.

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/sharia-teachings-need-moderated-order-protect-women/feed/0Call for Jihad to be Recognised as a Crime Against Humanityhttp://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/call-jihad-recognised-crime-humanity/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/call-jihad-recognised-crime-humanity/#commentsWed, 22 Oct 2014 19:50:30 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19892Alain Wagner, ICLA’s chairman demands jihad to be recognized as crime against Humanity. Working session 13 : “Tolerance and non-discrimination II” 30, September 2014 Religious intolerance can lead to war. The Islamic state’s creation in Syria and Iraq causes a contagion effect much farther than its own frontiers. Within OSCE countries, since many years, some Muslim […]

Religious intolerance can lead to war. The Islamic state’s creation in Syria and Iraq causes a contagion effect much farther than its own frontiers. Within OSCE countries, since many years, some Muslim organizations disseminate a doctrine glorifying and praising jihad.

Instead of being prosecuted as they normally should be, those organizations are recognized as partners by participating states. Sharia proponent organizations which glorify the criminal concept of jihad, are destroying social cohesion and make possible the appearance of Jew hunters as we’ve experienced in France and Belgium. They also make Islamic fighters recruitment more easy in our countries.

If they really want to uphold their commitments to fight against hate crimes and incitements to violence, participating states have to send a clear message to hate preachers and to firmly repress their activities. Military jihad concept has to be clearly identified as a crime against Humanity as defined by the Statute of Rome, chapter 2, article 7.

ICLA’s recommandations for OSCE:

Participant states must integrate in their hate crime legislations, new provisions criminalizing any apology of military jihad or of any jihadist’s feat of arm.

Participant states must aswell criminalize any public exhibition of the black flag of jihad, the white caliphate flag and the Islamic state’s flag as incitement to hatred and violence.

Those hate symbols have no place in the streets of countries forbidding incitement to violence.

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/22/call-jihad-recognised-crime-humanity/feed/0ICLA Applauds Former Iraqi MP Ayad Jamal Al-Din For His Recent Remarks on the Importance of Establishing a Civil State in Iraqhttp://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/21/icla-applauds-former-iraqi-mp-ayad-jamal-al-din-recent-remarks-importance-establishing-civil-state-iraq/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/21/icla-applauds-former-iraqi-mp-ayad-jamal-al-din-recent-remarks-importance-establishing-civil-state-iraq/#commentsTue, 21 Oct 2014 19:30:49 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19889ICLA is concerned about the negative impact sharia law can have on human rights. It made this point at the recent OSCE Human Dimension meeting in Warsaw, Poland. Its intervention was delivered in French but is now available with English subtitles in the video below: In the video below former Iraqi MP Ayad Jamal Al-Din […]

]]>ICLA is concerned about the negative impact sharia law can have on human rights. It made this point at the recent OSCE Human Dimension meeting in Warsaw, Poland. Its intervention was delivered in French but is now available with English subtitles in the video below:

In the video below former Iraqi MP Ayad Jamal Al-Din seems to be expressing similar concerns to those that ICLA has been voicing. He suggested the importance of man made law (secular law) as an alternative to Islamic law (the fiqh). ICLA applauds him for his comments and suggests that Western governments take note of his words when they make plans to confront ISIS in Iraq and Islamism more generally. Ayad Jamal Al-Din is a man that they should be listening to as well as organisations like ICLA that have been making these points for many years.

The following video of Ayad Jamal Al-Din’s remarks was posted by MERMRI TV:

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/21/icla-applauds-former-iraqi-mp-ayad-jamal-al-din-recent-remarks-importance-establishing-civil-state-iraq/feed/0Mothers to Oppose Radical Islam and Sharia at Speakers’ Corner, London, UK – Sunday 19 Octoberhttp://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/18/mothers-oppose-radical-islam-sharia-speakers-corner-london-uk-sunday-19-october/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/18/mothers-oppose-radical-islam-sharia-speakers-corner-london-uk-sunday-19-october/#commentsSat, 18 Oct 2014 15:28:30 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19879We have just received news that Anne Marie Waters, Director of Sharia Watch UK, will join principled speakers on Sunday 19th October to support Mothers Against Radical Islam and Sharia. Anne Marie said: “Extremist Islam represents a grave threat to the safety and freedom of women, as does the political correctness which allows some men to […]

We have just received news that Anne Marie Waters, Director of Sharia Watch UK, will join principled speakers on Sunday 19th October to support Mothers Against Radical Islam and Sharia.

Anne Marie said:

“Extremist Islam represents a grave threat to the safety and freedom of women, as does the political correctness which allows some men to get away with crimes against women, simply because the authorities don’t want to cause offence. It is up to women to stand up and demand that our freedom and safety are not compromised by our leaders in the name of political correctness. It is also significant that we are doing this at Speakers’ Corner, the home of British free speech, as we demand the right so speak our minds and tell the truth about the menace of radical Islam and sharia in our society”.

ICLA wishes those that attend this important event at Speakers Corner every success with their efforts tomorrow.

UPDATE:

Some video footage from the lively (in the best tradition of Speaker’s Corner) event (WARNING: some explicit language):

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/17/allah-icla-press-conference-new-york-rabia-kazan-video/feed/6Some Early Images From Yesterday’s “This is Not My Allah” ICLA Press Conference In New York With Rabia Kazanhttp://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/16/early-images-yesterdays-allah-icla-press-conference-new-york-rabia-kazan-2/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/16/early-images-yesterdays-allah-icla-press-conference-new-york-rabia-kazan-2/#commentsThu, 16 Oct 2014 21:18:20 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19838Some images from yesterday’s press conference to address some of the dangers that Islamic extremism poses for women. More information about this important press conference will follow shortly.

]]>http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/16/early-images-yesterdays-allah-icla-press-conference-new-york-rabia-kazan-2/feed/0Rabia Kazan “This is Not My Allah” Press Conference, The Hilton, Times Square, 15 October 2014http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/13/rabia-kazan-allah-press-conference-hilton-times-square-15-october-2014/
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2014/10/13/rabia-kazan-allah-press-conference-hilton-times-square-15-october-2014/#commentsMon, 13 Oct 2014 18:10:29 +0000http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=19816Spurred by recent and much-publicized atrocities committed by ISIS in the name of Islam, Ms. Kazan hopes to ignite a worldwide resistance movement of Muslims and all people of conscience to denounce violence committed in the name of religion by such groups as ISIS, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and others. Ms. Kazan intends to speak […]

]]>Spurred by recent and much-publicized atrocities committed by ISIS in the name of Islam, Ms. Kazan hopes to ignite a worldwide resistance movement of Muslims and all people of conscience to denounce violence committed in the name of religion by such groups as ISIS, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and others.

Ms. Kazan intends to speak out about the specific dangers that Islamic extremism poses for women, a danger she knows firsthand. Deciding to remove her hijab (veil) a few years ago, she became an instant target, threatened with death.

Rabia Kazan’s This is Not My Allah Call to Action includes the following actions:

Implore Imams to preach tolerance, love and non-violence.

Implore Muslim educators in madrassas and beyond to educate young Muslim students about the interlocking relationship of the three Abrahamic religions and respect for all faiths.

Beseech Muslim mothers in particular to teach their children that the atrocities being perpetrated in the name of Allah as blasphemous and antithetical to their religion. Muslim children have now seen bloodshed and beheadings in the name of God; that is the beginning of mind poisoning. Muslim mothers must take an active role in re-educating their children.

Encourage Muslims who have experienced the sting of the radical interpretation of their religion to share their stories on her website or Facebook page.